As IF Times

As most are keenly aware, it’s summertime in the northern hemisphere.  As should be evident, there will always be days of uncomfortably high temperatures in summer as there are stretches of uncomfortably cold and or wet conditions in the winter.  Is this abnormal?  What is abnormal?

The answer is; it depends who you ask. You will find ‘studies’ from all and sundry parties invoking their views on this.  But all that is irrelevant.  The salient thing to know, is that we can moderate our environment to make these weather swings habitable.  It’s called technology.  It’s called human progress.

The advance and harnessing of new technologies and discoveries has made previously hostile environments, habitable.  It has enabled humans to create, to build and to advance their societies. It is what separates the human species from the rest of the animal world who are entirely at the mercy of their environment.  The fact that this self-evident reality is disavowed by so many in our time is emblematic of just how pervasive mental disorders have affected populations.

Of course there are societies which eschew to a large part, the advances of modern technology. The Amish and Mennonites prefer to remain attached to their ways of doing things, preferring to live in the same fashion as their ancestors, ignoring most modern machinery and devices. The Amish take it more seriously as they don’t even use electricity.  These are choices these societies make to live in their way.  The Muslim world have their own, much more oppressive dictates for their people.  As closed societies within a larger free society, they can do as they wish.

In the larger society, people are less likely to be as principled.  They prefer to benefit from the conveniences created by technology in order to live more comfortably…which is the whole point of technological progress.

At the moment, an oppressive heat wave has enveloped much of Europe as temperatures soar to over 110 degrees Fahrenheit for extended periods.  Unlike North America, European cities are not generally equipped with air conditioning, thus, living is not only uncomfortable, it’s dangerous for much of the elderly and the very young.  More than 1300 deaths have been attributable to excess heat in this particular heat wave according to the WHO.

It would make sense that those who purport to value human lives would find some means to stop these preventable tragedies. And you’d be wrong.  Governments there are doing the exact opposite.  In the UK, people are being fined for using their air conditioners.  In France, your neighbors need to agree to allow you to install an air conditioner for your flat.  The social media post above shows the mentality of those who are so bereft of common sense that death is preferable to comfort.

Somehow, the acceptance of self-destructive behavior in the guise of social awareness has officially crossed the line into mental illness.  In any free society, people are allowed to inflict self harm…as supposedly free thinking individuals.  Heck, in Canada, it’s officially supported by the government.

When the urge to impose your views on others or worse to mandate them as government policy, then the society is no longer free.  It has then devolved into a giant HOA with self righteous ninnies making the rules. We all witnessed this on a global scale with the COVID fraud.

The existence of people eager to impose their will on others is not a new phenomenon.   Every society has their own rules of expected conduct and behavior.  Every religion has their codified standards of social interaction.  Every bikers’ club, every bowling league can make up their own rules.

None of this is odd.  What is odd is that in our lifetime, people feel that they have the right to coerce others NOT in their group to abide by rules made up by them.   What’s more odd is that people fall in line. The line graph of ‘tolerance’ for other communities has gone from urging people to wear pride buttons to now requiring them under duress of ostracization.  We’re now at the point of the graph of not letting people get relief from deadly heat because, you know, the planet.  Peak absurdity is that people in a society are encouraged to meekly accept the behavior of aggressive ideologues against their very existence…with the support of governments.  We now even witness white people protesting…against white people!

We now experience alien cultures imposing their views on their host nations going as far as demanding, demanding that host nations bend to their values.  There has been no instance in history of any civilization willingly ceding their sovereignty and culture without a fight, though many European nations now aspire to break that pattern.  Men would defend their societies, to the death if necessary to preserve what they hold dear.  Only male sensibilities will preserve a nation.  In fact, the founding of an entire nation, the most successful one ever, America, was founded on this very principle.  What’s changed in our lifetime is not the emergence of  tyrants of all stripes;  it’s the emergence of the meek and effete in host societies.  It’s the acceptance of surrender to long held values created by people attuned to reality. There has never been a successful society governed by the meek.  Any society unwilling to push back against threats to their very existence is unsustainable.

link:  https://exploringyourmind.com/the-invisible-gorilla-a-classic-experiment-in-perception/

We are now embarking upon the third year of the delusional insanity that has consumed the world in the form of Covid delirium.  Measures that were unthinkable two years ago are in place throughout the world today.   But instead of the ‘pandemic emergency’ waning, the measures being implemented against Covid are actually escalating.  We all recall the ‘experts’ advising that it would be a matter of 2 weeks to dissipate the malaise and achieve herd immunity.  How quaint. It’s as if you called someone in to get rid of a few ants in your house and two years later, not only has your home been completely destroyed and your pets killed,  but so also those of your neighbors for a 3000 mile radius… and they’re still looking for ants.  Meanwhile, you have to wear a contamination suit and ingest anti-ant poison.  A skeptical mind may question whether the powers that be were incompetent then….or even more incompetent now.  In either case, why would anyone still listen to these ‘experts’?

There’s no debating that many or most of the people in positions of power that are able to implement civil restrictions, penalties and coercion are natural born tyrants who just happened to find a timely outlet for their perversions.  We can say this without hyperbole because no rational person would accept their edicts if they weren’t cowed by fear over an illness that is so wildly exaggerated.

The government is going to order you to do something to your own body and you can’t refuse.  You can’t move about the country freely.  You can’t hang out with your family.  You will not be allowed out at all in public unless you do what the government says.  You will be denied health care and food if you don’t comply.  You will be taxed oppressively if you don’t comply.  Try saying that stuff out loud a few times. The Jeopardy answer to all this would be; what is North Korea?

Ironically, most of the oppressive behavior is being exhibited in the erstwhile free democratic ‘first world’ nations where the tradition and legacy of civic freedoms were once most sacrosanct. As evil and despotic as the Nazis were in 1930’s Germany, the modern day tyrants are essentially saying, “hold my beer”. As stated earlier, we can somewhat expect this since so many public officials satisfy their power thirst by running for office even at the dogcatcher level.  Most of the time, they’re feckless and harmless.  Give them access to real power, and they’re full on Kim Jong Un. Think Barney Fife without the manliness.

The most astounding thing is that a large part of the populace stands for this. Were this not the case, all the ersatz Barney Fifes would be run out of town with pitchforks and torches. How can such a large part of the populace not see the blatant falsehoods laid out directly before them?

There was a fascinating psychology demonstration in 1999 which can be called the Invisible Gorilla experiment. The invisible gorilla experiment has become a psychology classic. Although it was conducted for the first time in 1999, it’s still cited as a typical example of the limitations of perception and has been replicated many times since to similar results.  It also illustrates how people don’t like to accept the fact that they’re often blind to the world around them.

In the demonstration, teams of people are situated on a stage and audience members are asked to count the number of times a ball is passed between white shirted members thereon.  In the midst of this, a man in a gorilla suit walks across the stage in full view of the audience. At the end of the exercise, audience members were asked if they noticed anything unusual…say a man in gorilla costume.  To the researchers’ surprise, more than half of the audience didn’t notice the gorilla.

The first time the invisible gorilla experiment was conducted, and all subsequent ones, most of those who participated and didn’t notice the presence of the gorilla were amazed at how clear it all was! It seemed impossible to them that they had overlooked something so obvious.

This quirk of human perception is at work on a grand scale today as people are seemingly oblivious to the obvious things that are happening surrounding the Covid narrative. People are so focused on the fear that’s being sold to them that they can’t see the teams of gorillas running unfettered in their midst.

It’s vexing to know when people will be awakened to that realization, but in the meantime, Barney Fifes are running rampant in the world….without any sheriff Taylors to rein them in.